Human Resources: How Are They Faring on Your Project?
Deborah Bigelow, PMP
PM Network 16 (January 1999)
In a lessons-learned meeting after the completion of a major software implementation project, I asked, “What was the major challenge on this project?” The response, without hesitation, was “human resources.”
I should not have been surprised, but I was. With all the complexities of the project, this project manager still felt that management of human resources required much more energy and skill. The project manager emphasized that human resources were, by far, the most valuable resources.
I requested more explanation of how and why the human resource issues evolved so that I could more clearly understand and avoid this problem with future ...
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